Close to 104 million passengers passed though Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in 2017, making it the world’s busiest passenger airport for another year. That’s according to 2017 travel data released Thursday by Airports Council International. Globally, there were significant increases in passenger numbers, air cargo traffic and total aircraft movements. The world’s busiest airports 2017 1. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International…
Several British and French military aircraft were scrambled today. Two RAF planes were sent to the coast off Newcastle after the Russian Blackjacks long-range bomber jets passed through “a variety of international airspace”, which had been monitored by NATO partners. A Typhoon fighter jet and a supporting Airbus Voyager tanker plane were sent out from…
On departure from Luqa, the Airbus A319-112 (reg. 9H-AEJ) suffered birdstrike. Air Malta flight KM100, was scheduled to leave Malta International Airport at 7.20am, with the bird strike take placing upon its departure. The pilots safely aborted the take-off and slowed down on runway 13. Malta International Airport said the aircraft then returned to the…
The FAA is investigating after metal fragments fell from an aircraft Tuesday night over a neighborhood in Henrico County. The FAA is trying to determine whether or not the incident is related to a Delta flight that was diverted Tuesday night due to a reported engine problem. The plane took off for Richmond and was…
A security breach at Orlando Melbourne International Airport caused a lockdown early Thursday morning. Melbourne International Airport is closed until further notice due to police activity. According to an airport official, an unauthorized student boarded a commercial jet. The student was removed from the plane and is being questioned. Security sweeps of the airfield are…
At least 30 passengers on a Jet Airways Mumbai-Jaipur flight suffered ear and nose bleeding due to low cabin pressure during the ascent here on Thursday, an official said. The flight #9W697 with 166 passengers and five crew, was forced to return back to Mumbai shortly after take-off, said a Jet Airways spokesperson. Several passengers…
The most important part of an airline’s brand is its name and getting that wrong would seem to be impossible. However this has happened with one of the airline’s Boeing 777 (reg. B-HNO) arriving back in Hong Kong with a rather glaring error. The airline is going to be correcting that immediately. When human beings…
According to Russian Defense Ministry, a MiG-31 aircraft crashed in the Nizhny Novgorod region. Preliminary data indicate that a technical flaw had caused the MiG-31 fighter jet’s crash, the Russian Defense Ministry said. Both pilots have ejected safely. The plane fell 17 km from the air base. The circumstances of the disaster are being investigated. According to some…
An Air India plane with some 370 passengers on board from New Delhi to New York was supposed to land at JFK airport on September 11, but landed in Newark instead because of a series of technical failures, bad weather and low fuel. The captain in charge of the 15-hour flight could be heard fretting…
